TV & Film Movie Lounge

[MadamSarcastra]

In anticipation of Star Wars Day (a little under four weeks from now), I began watching Star Wars IV: A New Hope in my buddy's basement tonight.... I planned it all out so as not to get burned out. I head to the basement anywhere between 9:30 & 10:30, and can watch a full-length flick in a couple nights. I shall watch ONE movie, each week, in order, from the original trilogy, leading up to the glory of finally viewing The Force Awakens on May the 4th (be with you).

Just a note.... my father saw it in the theatre & absent-mindedly blew perhaps the biggest spoiler there was for me.... so, yeah. I read NO other sh*t about the film, but there's always that....

Nevertheless, I'm still very excited, and a super-cool, four-week-long build-up is even better!

 

[Amy SF]

What is it with fathers and Star Wars? When my dad saw the original Star Wars back in 1977, he went around for days afterwards BRAGGING that the movie was so boring he fell asleep halfway through.

 

[MadamSarcastra]

TRAILER TIME!! OMFG, this looks so cool....

 

[shyvas]

Driving Miss Daisy (1989) - IMDb

 

[Calliegirl]

Inside Out. It was really cute, I liked it.

 

[shyvas]

Sister Kenny (1946) - IMDb


"Elizabeth Kenny, as a young nurse out in the Australian bush discovers an effective treatment for polio, but can't get official recognition or sanction for her techniques and theories. For more than three decades (while she tells her fiancée she can't marry him, and repeatedly confronts the pigheaded orthopedic specialist Dr. Brack), she is prevented from treating acute cases and is ridiculed, while she seeks formal recognition for the efficacy of her treatment"

I found the film interesting as Elizabeth Kenny devoted her life helping polio victims with methods that were not recognised by doctors. Furthermore polio is not that far behind us. I remember a little boy in my class at primary school who was called Timothy. The poor boy came to class in a wheelchair. This image has always been stuck in my mind.

There are other facts that are unknown about polio ; once you have it you can never be cured. My friends husband who is in his mid 60's suffers with symptoms (extreme vomiting) as he his getting older. He contracted it when he was in school in BC Canada and many of the children in his class died.

 

[shyvas]

The Big Job (1965) - IMDb

 

[MadamSarcastra]

Finished up Return of the Jedi last night. As I mentioned, I'm gearing up for Star Wars Day, watching one original-trilogy flick per week (in order) until I finally see The Force Awakens on May the 4th (be with you... heehee).
Even though the biggest spoiler(s) have already been blown long ago (Thanks, Dad. ), I'm greatly looking forward to this.

Rented Trumbo yesterday, have it until Tuesday.... I've been waiting to see this. May or may not watch it tomorrow, depending on Jer's schedule, 'cuz he really wants to see it, too.

 

[ledboots]

Sister Kenny (1946) - IMDb


"Elizabeth Kenny, as a young nurse out in the Australian bush discovers an effective treatment for polio, but can't get official recognition or sanction for her techniques and theories. For more than three decades (while she tells her fiancée she can't marry him, and repeatedly confronts the pigheaded orthopedic specialist Dr. Brack), she is prevented from treating acute cases and is ridiculed, while she seeks formal recognition for the efficacy of her treatment"

I found the film interesting as Elizabeth Kenny devoted her life helping polio victims with methods that were not recognised by doctors. Furthermore polio is not that far behind us. I remember a little boy in my class at primary school who was called Timothy. The poor boy came to class in a wheelchair. This image has always been stuck in my mind.

There are other facts that are unknown about polio ; once you have it you can never be cured. My friends husband who is in his mid 60's suffers with symptoms (extreme vomiting) as he his getting older. He contracted it when he was in school in BC Canada and many of the children in his class died.

My great aunt was confined to a wheelchair from polio. She became a hand model, holding up the detergent or whatever while the other model did the rest On the live tv commercials back then, she would have to awkwardly get her hands nearby, making it look to the camera like it was the model's.

 

[shyvas]

My great aunt was confined to a wheelchair from polio. She became a hand model, holding up the detergent or whatever while the other model did the rest On the live tv commercials back then, she would have to awkwardly get her hands nearby, making it look to the camera like it was the model's.

Poor lady. As I have previously stated polio is not that far behind us.

It is truly heartwarming that despite having a major handicap, she managed to do something with her life.

 

[shyvas]

The Other Woman (2014) - IMDb

 

[MadamSarcastra]

Just watched "R2-D2: Beneath the Dome".... Jer was digging around for something, finally handed me a dusty DVD.... it's an adorably brilliant, 3-part, 20-minute mockumentary.... Enjoy!

 

[Andy_T]

Saw "London has fallen" yesterday ... oh, my! Garbage, taken to a whole new level ...

Spoiler: You don't even want to know....

I found it a bit unlikely that the evil Muslim terrorists would be able send dozens of terrorists (complete with full beards and fiery Muslim eyes) to infiltrate the English police, Queens Guards, ambulance services, and so on without anybody ever noticing that something is amiss ... up to the point that the minister of the interior concedes on National TV that they "have lost control of the city" and are fighting to "get back control". (Which they do by ordering all police officers to stay at home, so that everybody still out on the street wearing a uniform can easily be identified as terrorists, even if they are not conveniently carrying missile launchers or Kalashnikov rifles )

Of course, those packs of black-clad motorbike riders patrolling London with assault rifles and the SAM-toting villains on top of every parking garage looked cool, but might have been even more difficult to move into place than the fake SWAT teems and the river ships rigged with tons of explosives.

All I could think was "So this is what an American screenwriter thinks might happen in Europe" (likely because we don't have normal citizens armed with guns to guarantee our security )

 

[ledboots]

You should probably not watch American films and tv shows if they upset you so much.

 

[Andy_T]

Ledboots, I have seen a great lot of very good American films and TV shows, but "London is falling" was simply not one of those....

 

[Moll Flanders]

London Has Fallen was dire, haha. I stopped watching it after about 15 minutes. I watched Olympus Has Fallen a while ago for the second time and thought that was pretty crappy too. I didn't think it was that awful the first time, but maybe I had been drinking while watching!

ETA - There was another film called White House Down and that came out at about the same time, and was almost exactly the same storyline as OHF, but that wasn't that bad at all.

 

[Calliegirl]

I finally saw Frozen, but missed the first ten minutes.

An oldie: A Stolen Life. I don't think I've ever seen a movie with a young Bette Davis. I missed the beginning of this movie too.

 

[Andy_T]

My wife and I watched "Hail, Caesar" yesterday - a movie I can strongly endorse!

As one reviewer on www.imdb.com put it, this is "Radio Days, but with film" ... what Woody Allen did to fondly remember the magic of making radio in the 40's, the Coen brothers did here for making movies in the 50's. Definitely not a one-laugh-a-minute-comedy, but a good and silent homage to cinema.

It is very ironic - the other day I had this movie in my hand, then I read some reviews on www.imdb.com and there were a lot of very disappointed reviewers that said this was not what they had expected from a Coen brothers movie. So I was not sure whether this movie would be worth watching, and my wife and myself ended up watching "London has fallen" instead

 

[Calliegirl]

Moon. I wasn't sure it would be very good, but I was pleasantly surprised. It was made by David Bowie's son, and with a few exceptions, I figure kids of celebrities don't do much except live off their money. But, this was very good. Yeah I know, I stereotype.

 

[Andy_T]

My wife and I watched "Brooklyn" on the weekend, and we were both quite disappointed with it after the positive critiques and the fact that this movie was nominated for 3 Oscars, all of them "important" ones (Best movie, best actress, best script).

Nice, but definitely not Oscar worthy. The story was quite simple and often hard to accept/understand.